Is there a record for the number of records broken by one astronaut?
NASA astronaut — and all around badass — Peggy Whitson set yet another spaceflight record Thursday. Whitson surpassed NASA astronaut Sunita Williams to become the female astronaut with the most spacewalks under her belt, according to NASA.
With this spacewalk, Whitson has now walked in space a total of eight times. Whitson now also has the most cumulative spacewalking time, beating Williams' record of five hours and 40 minutes. (Michael Lopez-Alegria holds the overall record for most spacewalking time for any astronaut, but Russian cosmonaut Anatoly Solovyev blows everyone out of the water with more than 68 hours of spacewalking time to his name.) Read more...
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